What is the golden sedum?
Golden sedum, or sedum Adolphii , is yellow, succulent, evergreen permanent plant in the family sedum . It is popular for use in Sunny Rock Gardens, TerraSed Landscapes and Ground Cover. This plant originally from Mexico is resistant in warm and mild areas and does not tolerate frost. The golden sedum needs a full sun to achieve its attractive gold color. It will tolerate a part of the Sun, but the leaves can remain green, lined with purple or pink. The Golden Sedum reputation for low maintenance and easy growth makes it a good race for beginning gardeners.
Although the term "golden sedum" usually applies to sedum Adolphia , there are other types of yellow succulents that go variants of the name. For example, the Japanese golden sedum, sedum macinoi "ogon" , produces yellowish flowers in summer and can handle more slight climates and even temperatures up to 0 ° F (about -18 ° C). Improved golden sedum, sedum kamtschaticam , it is durable temperatures to drop to -30 ° F (about -34.4 ° C), tIt is suitable for various climate that cannot support sedum Adolfii . In order to contribute to confusion, kindergartens sometimes mistaken other succulents such as sedum Adolphia .
Gold sedum is resistant to deer and tolerant to drought and poor soil conditions. The term "succulent" concerns a plant that is well adapted to dry conditions and tolerant drought. Succulents have fleshy leaves that hold moisture. The golden sedum can tolerate neutral to slightly alkaline soil and do best in well -drained soil, especially in elevated beds.
Sedum Adolphia was rare until the middle of the 90s, when Dutch kindergartens began to sell it mixed with other sedum cultivars. Its easy spread and rapid growth makes it popular ground cover. The plant is so easy to spread that the gardeners dropped the stems on the soil during planting, neglected to pick them up, andHe returned a few days later to take root and spread in a new place.
In the summer sedum Adolphia produces white to white, star flowers, which make the plant attractive to butterflies and bees. Gold, fleshy leaves of the plant are well mixed against darker green leaves in the borders and beds for contrast and colored pop. The golden sedum grows to about 5 or 6 inches tall (13 to 15 cm) and the stems can reach 14 inches (about 36 cm). The color of the leaf may vary depending on the conditions of cultivation from year to year and from season to season. Golden Sedum grows best in arid, desert areas and semi -otropic areas.